indifferentiation

noun

A lack of differentiation in the senses

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounindifferentiation (plural indifferentiations)

plural indifferentiations

  1. A lack of differentiation in the senses
    1 more example

    Religious indifferentiation therefore stands for a third category of relation with the sacred, situated between the full identification of the sacred with the profane (as in ecstatic states) and their total separation (as in modern, disenchanted culture). Typically, folk religiosity greatly affirms the disposition to “indifferentiate”.

    2014, Steven J. Sutcliffe, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  8. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  9. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  10. Proto-Italic*dis-
  11. Latindis-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  14. Proto-Italic*ferō
  15. Latinferō
  16. Latindifferō
  17. Latindifferēns
  18. Latindifferentia
  19. New Latindifferentiō
  20. New Latindifferentiātus
  21. Englishdifferentiate
  22. Englishdifferentiation
  23. Englishindifferentiation

From in- + differentiation.

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Translations

French indifférenciation
  • indifférenciationTranslations
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APA

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Chicago

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